Overview

Overview

Hua Kun Liu is a Distingiushed Professor at the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong from 2014 to 2023. She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering in 2013. She was awarded the Doctor of Science (DSc) by the University of Wollongong in 2017 and the most competitive ARC Australian Professorial Fellowships by Australian Research Council in 1994-1998, 1999-2003, 2003-2005, and 2006-2010. She received the University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence Senior Researcher in 2013. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award by Ausinan Science and Technology Society in 2018.She has completed 52 research grants and 80% from ARC in which she mainly was the first CI. She is one of the Chief Investigators for Auto CRC 2020 program on energy storage (2012-2017), aiming at achieving high energy density, high power density, safety and long cycle life lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles, and also for Smart Sodium Storage System project supported by Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA, 2016-2020). She was a Highly Cited Researcher in 2016 (in Engineering) and 2018 (in Materials Science and Chemistry) by Clarivate, The Citations 41000, h-index = 97 by Scopus in May 2019. She has supervised more than 80 PhD students to completion and more than 40 postdoctoral and visiting fellow who have been widely spread within five continents. Professor Liu is the founder of the internationally renowned energy materials program within the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong. Under her leadership, the energy materials research group has grown to 60 postgraduate students and 10 full time staff in 2018.

Collaboration project:AUSTRALIA-BAOSTEEL project by HK.Liu etal (High energy anode materials for lithium ion batteries (2015-2017). $200K + $100K and UOW $80K From this project, a PhD candidate Lei Zhang was graduated, three other PhD candidates were contributed to this project. Two Baosteel researcher visited ISEM and discussed the project researcher at ISEM. Baosteel was very happied for this project, and spent RAM $2 million to develop the measuring facilities for battery materials. We published below:

After this project, Lei Zhang was PhD graduated worked in Griffith University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr Jianping Yang received the Dongfang scholar award and was a special pointed Professor position in Donghua University. BAOSTEEL applied a patent.

Collaboration project:AUSTRALIA-BAOSTEEL project by HK.Liu etal (High energy anode materials for lithium ion batteries (2015-2017). $200K + $100K and UOW $80K From this project, a PhD candidate Lei Zhang was graduated, three other PhD candidates were contributed to this project. Two Baosteel researcher visited ISEM and discussed the project researcher at ISEM. Baosteel was very happied for this project, and spent RAM $2 million to develop the measuring facilities for battery materials. We published below:

After this project, Lei Zhang was PhD graduated worked in Griffith University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr Jianping Yang received the Dongfang scholar award and was a special pointed Professor position in Donghua University. BAOSTEEL applied a patent.